Chris Brown has been charged with two felonies for his assault on Rihanna in early February. Even though most reports say she’s not cooperating with the police or prosecutors and is unlikely to testify against him, thankfully that does not stop the District Attorney from filing charges.
According to TMZ, Brown has been charged with felony assault and making a criminal threat. The assault is obvious – Celebitchy wrote earlier today about the horrible details of the crime, which are just as bad as we’ve all been hearing. There’s also the sickening new detail that Chris smashed her face against his car’s window.
The second felony – making a criminal threat – is likely due to his threats to kill Rihanna.
The L.A. County District Attorney has just charged Chris Brown with felony assault and making a criminal threat, also a felony.
The charging documents name “Robyn F.” as the alleged victim.
Brown will be arraigned today at 3:30 PM in downtown LA.
A spokesperson for the D.A. tells TMZ he could face a maximum of four years and eight months in prison.
[From TMZ]
Thank God it’s still possible to prosecute Brown without Rihanna’s help. Whether or not she’s going to seek justice in this case, Brown doesn’t deserve to get away with what he did, and he should be taught a long lesson.
MSat reported earlier today that Rihanna told police Brown had beat her in the past, and the beating had grown increasingly violent. This is obviously not surprising, since the first time the police are called to the scene of a domestic violence attack is rarely the first time one has happened. What’s also important for Rihanna to realize is that this is unlikely to be the end of it. Just because the whole world knows Chris Brown is a domestic abuser doesn’t mean he’s going to stop. It’s likely he will keep escalating.
Hopefully Brown spends some time in prison and Rihanna decides to end the cycle of abuse.
Photos of Chris Brown and Rihanna taken before Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party on February 7th, hour before the attack. Images thanks to WENN.com.
Yes !
But is he in jail or out on bail ?
Guess he’s a ‘real gangsta’ now.
this is a great thing, but he will probably not go to prison, which what needs to happen. If Rihanna is, in fact, back with Chris Brown, then that girl needs some help and why are so many artists (music men) defending Chris Brown? And where is Beyonce in all her “independent” woman glory? She is hiding behind her coward husband Jay-Z who has done nothing to protect his protege…
K-MAC: Excellent observation regarding Beyonkadonk. She was probably told by her husband to stay out of it. You know, because that’s usually the kind of ‘advice’ that flies around in situations like this.
He is nothing but a PUNK. I hope he gets HIS.
Seriously, this is the Beyonce that not too long ago said her mother slapped her in the face in public when she was over twenty. (I maintain, to this day, that even if your kid is sassing you in public – find another way than slapping to get your point across because someday that same kid mind somehow conclude that they deserve any humiliation and that it’s for their own good.)
Good luck thinking she’s going to get into this. And that’s before her husband edicts that she stfu.
I just read this over at Tyler Durden and according to a ‘source’:
Rihanna was applying makeup to her right eye, which I noticed looked puffy and discolored. Her friend said, ‘You’re eye looks [EXPLETIVE] up! He’s an [EXPLETIVE]! Why do you put up with him and let him hit you?’
“Rihanna told her, ‘It’s not his fault. When he hurts me, he’s a beast, but then he turns into my angel … He’ll hit me and then feel bad afterwards, but then he turns into the sweetest man and becomes my angel. He’ll cry like a little baby when he makes it up to me, and that’s the part I love.’”
Her reply is textbook battered woman talk and it’s extremely frightening.
So I guess she didn’t write the lyrics herself when she sang “You’re so ugly when you cry…” – and I always liked how she was spelling the word “PLEASE!” in “Take a bow” the most. Guess it’s not over now.
@ Baho. I love the Tyler Durden site. That’s some funny sh$%.
Just looking at the guy makes me angry. She’s an idiot.
You know another thing that traps people in abuse is this kind of bizarre off-martyrdom to the effect that they’ll gladly suffer the beatings for the pseudo-sympathic make up period that comes afterwards.
Thing is, I’m pretty sure most of that pseudo-sympathy make up stuff has a heavy ‘but it was your fault, you set me off in some way’ subtext. So accepting it is at least half of what ends up supplying you with the belief that it’s your fault – you just don’t know it at the time – you may even be smugly thinking that you’re getting off light, and the abuser’s the taking all the heat because he can’t see that you’re in it for that very moment.
That’s the trap that gets you in the end.
Creepy as hell.
Now that the courts have found enough evidence to charge him I sincerely hope that more celebrities get a backbone and start speaking out. Maybe if more celebs had called OJ out for being a wifebeater, Nicole Brown would still be alive.
Our radio station reported today that Chris and Rihanna are married and if that’s true she wont have to testify against him. Not sure if is or not but if she did marry him, I really feel sorry for her.
achem.
if they don’t lock him up straight away RiRi’s going to have a very long night.
Cause you know it’s all her fault.
I’m with you Ash, I would die happy never seeing his stupid ugly face again.
First of all, Whatever happened between Chris & Rihanna is between them….We don’t know what really happened that night for him to snap like that….U guys should not be passing judgment on anyone…Rihanna is not a saint either in this situation…I am not justifying the fact of her bruises or him hitting her…They are young…She & him will see the light eventually…U liked his music before this happened…this has nothing to do with his talent…he is talented…U guys feed in too much in the media…They amp things up…Let the young folks live and decide what they are going to do…If she chooses o be with him..SO BE IT!!!!!!!
Truly horifying is the account of the beating over at crazydaysandnights.com
I can’t even imagine how scared she must have been, or how sadly ill she is now.
Tash, that may have worked last month, but there has been a lot of information put forth that clearly shows what happened that night.
And just for the record, I never liked Chris Brown before this incident and have always been annoyed by his gum commercial.
We’re not feeding into the media, we’re just saying what we think about a guy who chooses to beat the piss out of his girlfriend, and as someone who has been in a similar situation, I feel I’ve earned that right.
There’s a difference between feeding into the media and seeing something that’s clearly wrong get passed off as supposedly as simple as tripping over a shoelace, as suggested by Chris’ dad – or something they need to ‘sort out’ in private, for that matter.
I’m kind of glad it didn’t stay private, or any whisperings of him abusing her would have been dismissed as malicious rumour. Just think of it: sweet, little, gum-chewing Chris? No way!
Can’t put it back in the box – it’s out there. And people have an opinion about it.
Maybe HE should have thought of that when he raised his hand.
I just know he’s not going to get any jail time. This is so sickening!
He was brought up in a violent household and is repeating that pattern despite vowing never to and if he doesn’t get some serious help he will be like that all his life and things will end up very badly for all parties involved. Next time will be much worse if he doesn’t learn his lesson NOW. What a waste of 2 young lives.
God his mother must be mortified!
Rihanna needs to stay the f away from him if/until he’s had some serious therapy (and not like an 2 day anger management workshop -sigh) From all accounts she’s a raving manipulative b* and even without the battering their relationship is highly dysfuntional on both ends, but NOTHING short of a physical attack warrants one in response.
I hope I’m wrong about the justice system and that:
he gets at least a 6 month sentence + at least 2 years probation conditioned on successfully completing a batterer program.
It’s not like Rihanna is dependent on Chris for anything – she has her own career, I’m sure she has her own car and house, they don’t have any children together (yet) – but she seems bound to him.
She must have EXTREMELY low self-esteem.
Maybe he will get the chance to be on the receiving end of a fist while in jail. Some time away from hom will help her to get over his ass and she can get therapy
@ Tash: You said “I’m not Justifying it” then you went and justified it ???
Ri may not be a saint. she may be a royal PITA who knows just what buttons to push. The looks on her face when they are photo’d together say she’s giving good lip service.
Doesn’t make it kosher to lay a hand on her. Not even if she called out his mama.
One more thing. I couldn’t even tell you which music was his.
I hope whomever you think it’s o.k. for you to hit has one hell of a big brother in a motorcycle gang or football team or the like who will teach you just how not o.k. it is to hit a girl.
For all of you with no sympathy for CB:
I too used to be incredibly judgmental toward men who hit women. Then I met my current boyfriend. Soft-spoken and thoughtful, he told me a few months into our relationship that he had been beaten by his mother as early as 6 months old. I had never been hit in my life, and I began to see that if you have been hit as a child, it’s very hard to let go of that.
My boyfriend had unfortunate incidents where he had hit the last two people he had been with. He felt completely unlovable and was too nervous to ask anyone for help. I decided to stay with him, got him into therapy, and now for the first time in his life he has broken the cycle.
But when I heard the Chris Brown story I couldn’t help but see it in a different way: someone who has been treated violently can become violent themselves when they lose control. Their eyes blaze and they can’t think straight. They hate themselves for this, and feel unlovable.
People who have been beaten as children do need help, yes, but they need understanding and compassion too. Or do you all think they should be single for the rest of their lives?
My understanding and compassion for adults children of abuse goes JUST as far as the moment they abuse someone else…and then it stops there.
MILLIONS of us grew up with abuse. Some of us were punched around or slapped around. Some of us were gut-grindingly verbally abused until we thought we were worth no more than a pile of dog poop. Some of us watched a man beat our mothers. Some of us watched our fathers mistreat other kids in the family even though WE weren’t abused.
He beat her. It doesn’t matter WHY he beat her.
I’ll never understand the propensity of women to try so hard to excuse the perpetrators. I’m so mad at Rihanna and other women who make her same mistakes that I see red when I think about it…but there is no “why” that justifies what this punk did to her.
QUOTE: “Or do you all think they should be single for the rest of their lives?”
No, Dear, I think YOU should volunteer to be his wife and mother his children. You go right ahead. Go make him feel better about his childhood okay?
I was in an extremely abusive marriage for 7 years. My son (the oldest) saw and took more by the age of 8 than anyone should have to in a lifetime.
We were in therapy for a loong time. Then one day my son asked me, “How can I make sure I don’t turn out like him?” I told him, <Never let yourself forget how it felt to be victimized.
My son is now 25. He has never laid a hand on may GF in anger. Not only that, he will not stand by an even hear a man speak disrespectfully to a woman.
I’d like to see what he would do with CB about now. Woman abusers aren’t so tough when confronted by a man.
I am so sick of the “you weren’t there” and “only those two people know what happened that night” pseudo-arguments to defend Chris Brown. Most violent crime(murder, rapes, battering) doesn’t have an audience and our justice system accounts for this with physical evidence and detective work. Otherwise, human justice could never be rendered, only divine (in that only God sees everything). I don’t have to see Chris Brown beat Rhianna to know he belongs in jail for doing it. Because, as a French film maker once remarked about the Nazis, “The problem is, everyone has their reasons.” The point is, it doesn’t matter what Chris Brown’s reasons were. I also think there’s a racially sensitive issue here. One blogger wrote that she doesn’t want the face of domestic violence to be an African-American one. So maybe people are defensive on those grounds. But in general, there is far too much forgiveness/understanding/acceptance of batterers in this country, which, of course, feeds the problem.
Anyone who sides and defends Chris Brown (that untalented and unknown piece of shit woman beater) should come and visit me and a few of my “friends”. I’m Italian, and I’m SURE I can show us a GOOD TIME…Oh, I mean him…
sorry i just dont get it. small beedy eyes and a mouth like a piano when he smiles.if you put him in a pair of overalls you wouldnt look twice. honestly him and usher they look like a couple of road sweepers…come on girl hes ten a penny you get youeslf a gorgeous beefy 50 cent…mmmmm